Re: Something to read over lunch: Eclipse IDE in the browser

Looks cool, although it failed to work on my notebook. I just get a gray screen and never see the IDE. But your screen shots indicate that it does work.

There are many applications that use Eclipse as the base application so it will be interesting to see how this evolves. It appears that they are still working the multi-user version but it does have interesting possibilities.

Thanks for for the heads up.

Pete


Aaron Bartell wrote:

So I was eating lunch and perusing my typical rss feeds only to find that a
rumor I had heard before now appears to be coming to fruition.

You can now run the eclipse IDE in the browser!!


Check out this alphaworks project:
http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/eclifox. Of course I couldn't do
anything else until I tried it out myself so I went ahead and put it on my
system. In my case the server and browser were both on my PC. The install
instructions are done well and I was able to be up and running in about 15
minutes. See a picture of eclipse in the browser here:


http://mowyourlawn.com/temp/Future_eclipse_browser.jpg


I must say that the "experience" was clunky at best, (running FireFox
2.0.0.11) but that takes second place to the fact they have a working
prototype! This is very intriguing and makes one think about the
possibility of client OSes not being a major factor in the future. It was
interesting because whatever I did in the browser was emulated on the
"server". So when I added HelloWorld.java it did the same thing on the
"server" (the thick client eclipse). Wonder if the System i could run this
in "headless" mode?


Makes you wonder.. is this the future of RDi? Kinda takes away the need for
a beefed up PC :-) Also, the updating of a programmers machine just got
that much easier as it is all stored in one place for all programmers.


Thought?

Aaron Bartell

http://mowyourlawn.com